Tag: Big V

The Cyberspace Administration of China announced on Sunday that it had ordered the closure of retired property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang’s Sina and Tencent Weibo accounts. Ren, who had well over 35 million followers on Sina Weibo, was nicknamed “the Cannon” for his unrestrained posting. Though a Party member himself, he recently responded to Xi Jinping’s assertion of Party control over the media by insisting that taxpayer-funded state media should serve the public first.